place
Church of the Dormition-on-the-Graves
Dormition-on-the-Graves
A Moscow church (Uspenie-na-Mogiltsakh) near which Panikhidin lodges; the name itself continues the story's graveyard humor.
Reading notes
- A Terrible Night §7 the Church of the Dormition-on-the-Graves
A Moscow parish church (Uspenie-na-Mogiltsakh, literally 'the Dormition on the little graves'); its real name feeds the story's running joke of morbid Moscow toponymy.